Assault on Mexican American Collective Memory, 2010-2015
Swimming with Sharks- Authors:
- Publisher:
- 2017
Summary
This book uses a micro-narrative structure to explore the assault on the collective memory of Mexican Americans in the Southwest United States from 2010–2016. These communities’ survival depends on their histories and identities, which are being quickly erased by gentrification and dispersal, neoliberalism and privatization. This issue is most apparent in the education system, where Mexican American students receive inferior educations and lack access to higher education. Avoiding the overly-theoretical macro-narrative, this book uses case studies and micro-narratives to suggest possible changes and actions to address this issue. It also explores how the erasure of Mexican Americans’ history and identity mirrors society as a whole.
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Bibliographic data
- Copyright year
- 2017
- ISBN-Print
- 978-1-4985-4823-6
- ISBN-Online
- 978-1-4985-4824-3
- Publisher
- Lexington, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 278
- Product type
- Book Titles
Table of contents
- Contents No access
- Preface No access
- Acknowledgments No access
- 1 Fighting for Memory No access Pages 1 - 30
- 2 Are We Going to Win? The Changing of the Guard No access Pages 31 - 64
- 3 Coming Apart No access Pages 65 - 98
- 4 Lost Dreams No access Pages 99 - 134
- 5 The Silencing of the Lambs No access Pages 135 - 168
- 6 The Sharks Are Circling No access Pages 169 - 198
- 7 On the Edge of the Cliff No access Pages 199 - 224
- Epilogue No access Pages 225 - 242
- Bibliography No access Pages 243 - 262
- Index No access Pages 263 - 276
- About the Author No access Pages 277 - 278





